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Salt Names (Fine Motor Activity)

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The Theme for the week is Ready to Learn, with a sub-theme of Learning Together.

This week I will be focusing our time on developing fine motor skills. I planned on using only droppers for this week’s activities, as they help with muscle control. Day two, our activity focused on picking up and releasing liquid. Day three I wanted to focus on finding a smaller but defined target.

This salt name activity takes some prep work, but the payoff on hand muscle control is worth it. I prepped this work the night before, if you are using gel food coloring then I would prep that as well.

Materials for activity:

How I presented the activity:

We discussed yesterday’s activity and the current activity that was in front of them.

I let them explore and work on the activity.

I joined them and began to work on my name.

What I observed.

With no real direction, they were fine to just drop the colors on the paper with no real intentions, other than seeing the colors blend. Once I sat down and started to work on mines with them they began to observe me and mimic what they saw me doing. I also noticed that they were able to control the droppers better in how they directed them, and how much liquid they gathered.

What would I do differently?

I will try smaller droppers next time, create more than one name stip per student, create a sample activity first for them to reference and try and recreate.